Re: MD: Perfect Portable (Was: Refurbished Sharp 702s)

2000-03-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3/2/00 10:46 AM, Ralph Smeets increased the world's knowledge by typing: I'm under the impression that you haven't met PrinzeGaz yet... He's our 'provoker'. I mean, he just likes discussion to much ;-) I guess not. I noticed his smiley, but I just had

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the ability to start playing from the beginning without having to use the jog dial Yes! I *hate* this. Add to it the fact that when I'm on the last song, I can't hit "forward" to go to track #1 -- I have to jog/skip all the way to the beginning or open the door

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-03 Thread Dan Frakes
Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes! I *hate* this. Add to it the fact that when I'm on the last song, I can't hit "forward" to go to track #1 -- I have to jog/skip all the way to the beginning or open the door and close it again. Hmm, AFAIK, the 702 does this. Ie, you can hit

MD: Perfect Portable (Was: Refurbished Sharp 702s)

2000-03-02 Thread Ed Heckman
At 3/2/00 10:46 AM, Ralph Smeets increased the world's knowledge by typing: I'm under the impression that you haven't met PrinzeGaz yet... He's our 'provoker'. I mean, he just likes discussion to much ;-) I guess not. I noticed his smiley, but I just had to get that off my chest anyway.

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread David W. Tamkin
Ed Heckman wrote, | If Sony made a version of the R50 that had the following modifications, I | would buy one YESTERDAY and tell my friends that they should buy one too: [among the modifications, Ed listed this:] | -- the ability to start playing from the beginning without having | to

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread brynmore williams
| -- the ability to start playing from the beginning without having | to use the jog dial I have been trying to get around the "you're-in-the-middle-of-the-disc and-want-to-start-listening-from-the-beginning-again" problem. The way i do it now (the fastest i have found) is to hit

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread Ed Heckman
At 3/2/00 4:26 PM, David W. Tamkin increased the world's knowledge by typing: | -- the ability to start playing from the beginning without having | to use the jog dial You can open and reclose the clamshell, or you can press END SEARCH, PLAY, STOP, PLAY. Yep, you guys are right. I

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread Dan Frakes
Ed Heckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Sony made a version of the R50 that had the following modifications, I would buy one YESTERDAY and tell my friends that they should buy one too: [only my gripes quoted ;-)] an "automatic" end search when recording And a note explaining why the ever put

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread Mattias Bergsten
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Dan Frakes wrote: The Sony "stick" is the stupidest remote I've ever used. Am I the only one who thinks it's brilliant? I have no problems with changing songs without hitting the stop button, but that might have to do with the size of my fingers. The only thing that

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread Edmund Wong
Am I the only one who thinks it's brilliant? I have no problems with changing songs without hitting the stop button, but that might have to do with the size of my fingers. I've tried other remotes (Aiwa AM-F7, Sharp 721, Sharp 702, Panasonic SJ-MJ70, the newer Sony remote used in the R90),

RE: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread Richard Lang
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 3 March 2000 14:48 To: MDList Subject: Re: MD: Perfect Portable On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Dan Frakes wrote: The Sony "stick" is the stupidest remote I've ever used. Am I the only one who thinks it's brilliant? I have no problems with changing songs witho

Re: MD: Perfect Portable

2000-03-02 Thread Mattias Bergsten
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Edmund Wong wrote: I mean, it's not that it's unbearable, but it pales greatly in comparison to the others when you factor in ease of use with one hand. Okay, then I guess I AM weird, because I actually prefer it to other remotes I've tried. /fnord